In this paper, we investigate the determinants of daily short selling activity for retail and foreign institutions and their impacts on stock returns, volatility and liquidity in the Taiwan stock markets. By using two metrics to measure the short selling activity for two investor types, we find...

In this study, we apply Panel Threshold Model (Hansen, 1999) to examine whether there is optimal asset scale for interest spread to affect banks' profits. The empirical results demonstrate the existence of three thresholds, which divide banks into four groups into four groups according to asset...